POP star Peter Buck told a jury yesterday that he had no recollection of allegedly going on the rampage 35,000 feet above the Atlantic.

The 45-year-old REM guitarist, who is accused of assaulting two British Airways cabin crew, said one of his last memories was downing a sleeping tablet with a glass of wine over America before waking up in an English jail.

"I recall ... there were bright lights overhead. I wasn't really awake. I had this fear I had had a heart attack and was in a weird hospital in Disneyland.

"I don't mean I was seeing characters or anything like that. I was just struggling to get conscious," he told London's Isleworth Crown Court.

But when he eventually realised he was in a police cell at Heathrow airport, he was "horrified ... it was like something out of a novel. I can't begin to describe the feelings I had."

He said although he could not remember having his fingerprints taken, he could recall looking at the inked tips afterwards and experiencing a sense of "terror".

And when he learnt what he was supposed to have done, he was over-come with shame.

"To me it was just incomprehensible ... I have never been in trouble before ... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it."

The court has heard that Buck, who said he could only remember having at most three-and-a-half glasses of wine before and during the flight, had actually had up to 15 top-ups during the Seattle to Heathrow flight last April before being refused any more.